The Northern Lights could be visible in parts of the UK on Thursday and Friday night - but any viewing window is likely to be brief
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Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland will have the best chance of seeing the aurora, which is caused by charged particles from the sun colliding with molecules in the upper atmosphere."The Northern Lights may be enhanced overnight tonight with the arrival of a coronal mass ejection," said a spokesman.
Don Pollacco, a physics professor at the University of Warwick, said people in the countryside would have the best chance.
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